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Biography
Professor Denise Meredyth is the Deputy Director of the ISR; she co-ordinates research planning, postgraduate issues and curriculum development across the ISR. A Professorial Fellow, she is also the leader of the Citizenship and Government program. Denise has published widely on education policy, liberal governmentality and civic formation, information poverty, wired communities and participation. Recent books and reports include Citizenship and Cultural Policy (Sage, 2001, edited with Jeffrey Minson), An Articulate Country: Reinventing Citizenship in Australia (UQP, 2001, with Kay Ferres) and Real Time: Computers, Change and Schooling (AGPS, 1999, with Russell, Blackwood, Thomas and Wise). She is currently working on a book with Julian Thomas, on information policy and social policy and on four ARC-funded projects (Wired High Rise, Liberal Machines, Retrieving the Record and Community Consultation and the Hard to Reach). She is on the editorial boards of Southern Review and Australian Universities Review.
Publications Include
Meredyth, Denise, Ewing, Scott and Thomas, Julian, "Neighbourhood Renewal and Government by Community: The Atherton Gardens Network", International Journal of Cultural Policy , vol. 10, no. 1, 2004 Hopkins, L., Thomas, J., Meredyth, D. and Ewing, S. "Social Capital and Community Building through an Electronic Network", Australian Journal of Social Issues , vol. 39, no. 4, 2004, pp 369–379 Meredyth, Denise, Hopkins, Liza, Ewing, Scott and Thomas, Julian, "Wired High Rise: Using Technology to Combat Social Isolation on an Inner City Public Housing Estate" in Marshall, Stewart, Taylor, Wal and Yu, Xinghuo (eds), Using Community Informatics to Transform Regions, Idea Group, Hershey, Penn, 2004 Meredyth, D., Ewing, S. and Thomas, J., "Editorial: Divided Opinions over the Digital Divide", Southern Review, vol. 36, no. 1, 2003 Meredyth, D., "Wired High Rise", presentation to Department for Victorian Communities, Melbourne, 15 May 2003 Meredyth, D., "Wired High Rise: Building Community Bit by Bit", presentation to Department of Human Services, Melbourne, 7 July 2003 Hopkins, L., Ewing, S., Meredyth, D. and Thomas, J., "Machinery and Community: The Atherton Gardens Community Network", Southern Review, vol. 36, no. 1, 2003 Meredyth, D., Hopkins, L., Ewing, S. and Thomas, J., "Measuring Social Capital in a Networked Housing Estate", First Monday, vol. 7, no. 10, 2002 Meredyth, D. and Ferres, K., An Articulate Country: Re-inventing Citizenship in Australia, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 2001 Meredyth, D. and Hunter, I., "Competent Citizens and Limited Truths", in T. Seddon and A. Lawrie (eds), Beyond Nostalgia: Reshaping Australian Education, Australian Council for Educational Research, Melbourne, 2000 Meredyth, D. and Minson, J., "'Editors' Introduction: Resourcing Citizenries", American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 43, no. 9, 2000 Meredyth, D. and Hunter, I., "Popular Sovereignty and Civic Education", American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 43, no. 9, 2000 Meredyth, D. and Thomas, J., "Virtually No Policy: Modulating the Digital Divide", Southern Review: Essays in the New Humanities, vol. 33, no. 2, 2000 Meredyth, D., Russell, N., Blackwood, L., Thomas, J. and Wise, P., Real Time: Computers, Change and Schooling, Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Canberra, 1999 Meredyth, D. and Thomas, J., "A Civics Excursion", History of Education Review, vol. 28, no. 2, 1999